Microsoft wants to buy Mojang for Minecraft for $2 Billion

[DaveLembke]

I am very surprised at this!

It seems kind of late to be making an offer on this since it has been out this long. I feel that the market is saturated with people who already bought the game, as well as multiple platform licenses like myself. My family owns 2 copies of the game plus my daughter also has fun with the demo version for PC. The 2 licensed copies are for Kindle Fire and Play Station 3.

I just dont see Microsoft making a profit on the game itself at this price tag. If anything it might be a way to leverage people into buying a portable MS device, but still... if you already have 2 copies + a demo for PC, do you really need a 3rd licensed platform copy.    Are there any other games from Mojang that are a must have?

Also has Microsoft ever bought a game and made a newer version of it better?


http://time.com/3318135/microsoft-minecraft/

[evilfantasy]

I just dont see Microsoft making a profit on the game itself at this price tag.

The clothing and collectibles market from Minecraft is huge. Licensing from that alone seems like a good investment.

[patio]

Look at the big picture Dave...MS has all the cabbage in the World...
It's not neccesarily about if it'll be a profit venture...it's about swatting flies.

[BC_Programmer]

Bear in mind that the primary source of these articles is WSJ. Their source is "according to a person with knowledge on the matter". That's... well that's just a specious source, really.

My personal "conspiracy" theory is that this is further FUD being spread by Wolvereness or his allies to fabricate ill-will against Mojang. In particular, since Wolvereness himself can be quoted as mentioned that "Mojang is becoming Microsoft" in his opinionated rants.

For those not in the know, Wolvereness was a contributor to the bukkit project, which was a enhanced replacement server software for Minecraft that allows plugins. After learning that Mojang owned the project, he threw a fit and filed false DMCA takedown of every single bukkit-derived project on the internet, which has basically tied them all up in a legal sense with their web hosts.